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Hank©[_3_]

On 9/29/2013 11:16 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 22:11:04 -0400, "F.O.A.D." wrote:

On 9/29/13 10:04 PM, wrote:
On Sun, 29 Sep 2013 16:06:26 -0400, John H
wrote:

I've kept a magnifying glass in my desk drawer for years. Only been the past year or so that I've
had to drag it out. I suppose it's just cheaper to print stuff really, really small. Probably saves
'em a lot of ink money, not to mention paper, trees, forests, global warming, etc., etc.

Go to the dollar store and get a pair of "350" reading glasses.
I keep them on my work bench for working on tiny printed circuit
boards and putting leads into subminiature connectors.
It also works on the bane of all old guys, reading the engraved
numbers on a glass fuse cap.

3.50 reading glasses? Wowser. 1.50s work for me. 3.50 would give me a
blinding headache and I wouldn't be able to read anything.

If you are working up close on something they work pretty well. Just
don't look up or try to walk.
It is just easier than trying to work with a desk magnifier.

My normal reading glasses are 1.25

Perhaps Harry isn't taking into account the new optics he had implanted
during cataract surgery.